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May 2020
May 2020
Family Day!
Family Day!
The International Day of Families was founded by the United Nations to observe and celebrate the importance of families, (traditional and non-traditional), people, societies, and cultures around the world 🌎
On this day we acknowledge the value of families as a source of love, support and companionship to help us overcome difficult circumstances like the current pandemic 🤝
Today we celebrate the families of the Santiago College community, your strength, your love and your abilities to organize as a solid community that strives to embody the IB spirit: caring, empathetic and understanding of our differences.
So let's celebrate families today and remember that reading is a way to reinforce our bonds! 📖
The family that reads together, stays together 😉
Student Day!
Student Day!
Happy Student Day! Today we celebrate you, the students who give meaning to our jobs and our vocation as teachers, librarians, psychologists, psychopedagogues, etc.
Every day we are committed to your education and we are proud of being a involved on your growth and development in every step of the way.
As a Library, we are convinced that reading holds a pivotal role in your learning process and your development as citizens of the world.
📖 Reading opens up your mind, provides you with insight and different perspectives and overall contributes to your personal development not only within academics but also within society and as understanding, creative and empathetic humans!
Celebrate Student Day by continue to becoming active lifelong learners in this intercultural world that is the IB community!
Keep on learning! Keep on reading! Keep on growing!
Your Library.
Book Week Contest Winners!
The response to our Book Character Contest was amazing!
We are beyond happy and thankful and would like to congratulate all the participants (and their parents) for coming up with such amazing ideas for costumes. We praise the creativity, time and effort put in the development of the costumes, the interpreting of the characters through the photos and the collection of votes.
Thank you for participating and helping us promote a love for reading!
Library Team.
April 2020
April 2020
Book Week Contest!
Book Week Contest!
As a library, we celebrate books every day, and even during social distancing, our team has not let book week to be over yet!
In honour of Book Week, we're hosting a contest on our Instagram Page and we've inviting everyone in the Santiago College Community to join in.
Each participant has to submit a photo of themselves dressed up as their favourite book character! This activity is supposed to spark creativity, imagination and of course celebrate books and the last week of the month. All entries will be posted on our Instagram Feed and followers will be able to cast their vote to their favourite character costume. The costume with the most votes wins the contest!
Submissions will be received until the 29th of April and the Winner will be announced on the 1st of May.
Join in!
World Book and Copyright Day!
World Book and Copyright Day!
Happy World Book Day! The day we as a Library expect every single year 🤓 The first World Book Day was celebrated on 23 April in 1995, and has continued since then.
In World World Day we celebrate books as the embodiment of human creativity, we celebrate authors, illustrators, publishers, editorials, books and (most importantly)... it's a celebration of reading!
This year we face new and harder difficulties than other years, a global pandemic is preventing us to go outside and live out our routines. But the one thing that can help us battle isolation, comfort ourselves, give us perspective, reinforce our ties with people, expand our horizons, stimulate our minds and creative during these times... Is books!! 📚
Books can challenge distance and time, they can open doors to infitine worlds and they can make you travel without having to move your feet.
Today we proclaim the desire to share ideas and knowledge and we want to make you a part of our celebration!
Stay tuned for this week's activities and keep on reading!
International Earth Day
International Earth Day
Every 22th of april, Earth Day is celebrated around the world to demonstrate support for environmental protection and conservation. It was first celebrated in 1970, and since then more than 193 countries have joined to the global event coordinated by the Earth Day Network.
Eath Day is about taking a moment to reflect about our planet and the impact we have in it. It is about taking meaningful action across a variety of important issues such as climate change, plastic and pollution, conservation and restoration of natural resources, etc. It is also a day to highlight the importance of science and education and the role of people and communities to make a significant change in our planet.
Today we invite you to check out our list of resources and find out more about these environmental issues.
You'll find some activities for the little ones here and a few informative videos for Middle and Upper library.
You can also visit EarthDay.Org and find out how you can take part into the action for our planet.
Be conscious, take action, make a change!
International Children's Book Day
International Children's Book Day
Since 1967, the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), which is a non-profit organization that promotes children’s literature and encourages young people to read, has been celebrating the power of reading and the role of books in the development and education of children.
This month we joined in the celebration of children's literature and not even social distancing stopped us from sharing our favourite children's books!
On our Instagram Account we shared some pictures of children reading and our Lower School Librarians recommended us some books and shared some Readalouds with us!
March 2020
March 2020
March is the month we celebrate the often overlooked contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. Our SC Library has organised various activities that encourage students and other members of our community to reflect, commemorate and study their vital role through time. Around our libraries you can find various displays with books written by women or that highlight and problematize their figure in different subjects; you'll also find famous quotes, relevant figures and even a mannequin that reflect the spirit of women's history month!
December 2019
December 2019
Holiday Book Fair!
The Holiday Book Fair took is a great opportunity for you all to acquire the latest books in English and Spanish from our vendors as a holiday gift or for your own homes!
We had a blast on our Holiday Book Fair 2019. Chec out some of the photos of our book browsing!
November 2019
November 2019
November: Poetry Month
In november we celebrate Poetry Month! The goal is to increase awarenes and appreciation for poetry in all levels of education. We filled our libraries with displays about Poetry and different types of poetic texts, also a couple where we compared some verses of famous poets to popular contemporary artists. We had poetry readings in the Lower and Middle Library, a Blackout Poetry workshop in the Upper Library and all sorts of activities including: poetry stations and a "Take a poem to go" jar.
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